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Research Scientist

Simular · Palo Alto · On-site

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About Simular

Research-driven AI agents that operate real computers. Try Sai, your first robosecretary. Backed by South Park Commons, Felicis and a16z speedrun.

About the role

Where multiple locations are listed for this role, the position may be based in any of those locations, with priority determined according to the order of listing.

What they're looking for

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent research experience
  • Experience owning the complete research lifestyle: leading and executing a research program from ideation all the way to publication
More about this role

Where multiple locations are listed for this role, the position may be based in any of those locations, with priority determined according to the order of listing.

Shape the future of agentic AI by pioneering new research directions in planning, reinforcement learning, multimodal reasoning, grounding, human-agent. interaction, and alignment (e.g. reward modeling, automated task evaluation, AI safety).

Design and execute experiments end-to-end: from data collection and benchmarking, to model training and evaluation.

Develop new methodologies that push the boundaries of AI agent capabilities and reliabilities, advancing both academic and product impacts, in collaboration with world-class scientists and engineers.

Collaborate closely with engineers to integrate research prototypes into product

Publish and present results at top-tier conferences, contributing to the broader AI research community.

Advance the science hands-on through designing methods, building datasets, running experiments, and benchmarking against state of the art.

PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent research experience.

Experience owning the complete research lifestyle: leading...

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